Originally Posted by
BarracksSi
This wasn't a racist study.
If you want to insult these articles that were written two years apart by calling them mere "blurbs", be my guest. Trust me, news organizations of the London Times's and BBC's caliber don't write "blurbs".
No one, absolutely no one, claimed it was a racist study. And no one called the article a 'blurb.' You posted a blurb about it. All I suggested was that before one goes off thinking he has the truth based on a news article, it would be useful to actually read the study itself, including the raw data and see the methodology.
If the claim 'appears' to be sexist or racist or otherwise contradict common sense or fair minded beliefs, all the more reason to scrutinize it.
Your response was a non sequitur and sounded some what confused. You said,
"I know that it was a London study and I live in the US, but paying people to do these studies is what taxes are for, anyway."
This clumsy sentence, I guess, suggests that since taxes paid for this study, the study is somehow valid.
Please explain how the fact that taxes paid for a study shows it was done properly.
You also said you didn't have time to check your facts or read or interpret data. In the time spent posting on this subject, a reasonably intelligent and well educated person could have read the study and looked at the data. But you also said the study was buried, hidden. Why? If this is a valid, peer reviewable study, why hide it. This is not the way science works. This is the way gossip works.